If you are involved in a trust or Palm Beach probate dispute involving a Florida house or residence, what probate lawyers Palm Beach call Florida Homestead, you NEED to read this November 12, 2014 legal opinion on a trust case from Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeal.  The 4th DCA is the court of appeals that hears Palm Beach trust cases and Palm Beach probates.

If you are dealing with a Florida probate in, say, Boca Raton, Florida, you may have a simple, very common question:  Where did all the money go?   Now, there are two Florida probate videos on trying to find out where mom or dad’s money went and why it isn’t in the Florida probate….. put another way,where did all the money in the Florida probate go?

If you are involved in an Estate Lawsuit Palm Beach or trust litigation Palm Beach Gardens, you may want to read this recent, November 5th, 2014 opinion from West Palm Beach’s appeals court, Florida’s 4th District Court of Appeal.  It deals with an issue which probate litigators Palm Beach face all the time: when formal notice under the Florida Probate Rules is necessary to seek surcharge or personal liability against a Florida trustee or executor of a Palm Beach will.

Recent reports about the estate and wealth of Robin Williams suggest that the  Oscar winning actor was challenged by dementia, and Parkinson’s. 

Palm Beach probate litigators are not the only ones who deal with allegations of forged signatures on trust documents.  A recent, October 28, 2014 Montana Supreme Court case dealt with some wild facts in thistrust lawsuit which demonstrates that trust lawyers Palm Beach are not the only ones with interesting trust lawsuits.  If you are involved in a trust challenge Florida, you may want to read this trust opinion.

If you are the child, a son or daughter, of a Florida resident who just passed  away, you may be wondering if you areentitled to an inheritance.  So, are adult children entitled to get an inheritance from aFlorida probate?  Or, does Florida estate law permit adult children to be dis-inherited?

If you are named the executor of a will in Florida, get ready…. maybe.  Many persons named in a Florida to run the probate estate are not permitted to be the Personal Representative Palm Beach.  You can watch afree Palm Beach probate video on the topic of who may be the Personal Representative of aPalm Beach probate estate at the following link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7oxB3d-rcw&feature=youtu.be

If you got cut out of a will or a Boca Raton estate plan and believe that it was the fault of the estate planning attorney Palm Beach, you might be thinking about suing for malpractice.  A new estate planning malpractice case was just handed down on October 29, 2014 by the Supreme Court of South Carolina and it’s got everyone talking about writing wills & trusts and estate planning malpractice, including here in Palm Beach.

Florida law on estate planning malpractice was cited in a landmark Supreme Court of South Carolina case involving estate plans & malpractice allegations.  The Supreme Court commented on the  Florida law issue of “privity,” or the privity exception to the estate plan malpractice rule that you generally must be in privity with the attorney who you believe committed malpractice. 

If you are a Florida widow or a surviving spouse of someone who just passed away in Florida, you have a GUARANTEED INHERITANCE.  There is a new video on Palm Beach probate which talks about your GUARANTEED survivor rights as a Florida widow or spouse.  Here is a Florida probate video which you can watch for free online about survivor rights to Florida probates, including the guaranteed survivor rights of a widow or wife or husband under Florida estate law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwB4ySmvS4A&feature=youtu.be What are my rights as a widow under Florida probate law? Palm Beach probates provide very valuable inheritance rights for widows and wives and husbands who survive Under the Florida probate code, a spouse can automatically inherit 30-50% of the Palm Beach estate depending on a number of factors such as Was there a Florida will? Did the Florida will leave you out?  Cut you out? Disinherited? Did the Florida will leave everything to someone else like an old spouse or a different beneficiary? Did your husband or wife forget to change the will? Are all his assets in joint accounts or survivor accounts?  Pay on death?  Do you know how to get those ? If there is not will, you can still inherit 50% or half of the Boca Raton estate. Delray Beach probate lawyers know that it doesn’t (necessarily) matter what the will or the Boynton Beach living trust says.  Widows get a guaranteed inheritance in Palm Beach estates! Unless you waived your estate rights or signed a […]